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title: The _kaikomako_ wood is used as the _kauati_, the piece which is rub… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The _kaikomako_ wood is used as the _kauati_, the piece which is rubbed; the pointed rubbing stick which the operator works to and fro is the _kaurima_. Who acts: operator, pointed rubbing stick. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hil
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 77

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The \_kaikomako\_ wood is used as the \_kauati\_, the piece which is rubbed; the pointed rubbing stick which the operator works to and fro is the \_kaurima\_.

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**Who acts:** operator, pointed rubbing stick · **What happens:** use, rub, work, be · **To what, where:** kaikomako, piece, pointed rubbing stick, kaurima

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Their Names.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (operator, pointed rubbing stick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73766:10:77
# text = The _kaikomako_ wood is used as the _kauati_, the piece which is rubbed; the pointed rubbing stick which the operator works to and fro is the _kaurima_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	kaikomako	kaikomako	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	kauati	kauati	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	rubbing	rubbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	operator	operator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	fro	fro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	kaurima	kaurima	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | the kaikomako and wood |  |  |  | as the kauati | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as kauati=Attribute |
| 2 | **rub** | present · passive |  | the piece |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | present | the operator | the pointed rubbing stick and fro |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent which=Material |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the pointed rubbing stick and fro | the kaurima |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Project Gutenberg book 73766 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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